Bringing community involvement into a Cretan primary/hospital care center: An evaluation of population habits and attitudes toward health care

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-131

  Chatziarsenis, Marios ^a,c   Lionis, Christos ^b   Makri, Eleni ^a,b   Sapouna, Kiki ^b   Fioretos, Michael ^b   Faresjö, Tomas ^c   Mavromanolakis, Manolis ^b   Vlachonikolis, Jean ^b   Trell, Erik ^c  

^a Neapolis Hospital and Health Centre   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Community involvement; Crete; Greece; Health promotion; Perceptions; Prevention; Primary care; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMMUNITY CARE; GREECE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITAL CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GREECE; HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING;

EID: 0032802729     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020541303359     Document Type: Article

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